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Red Secularism
Author | : Todd H. Weir |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107132030 |
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Illuminates the culture and worldview of socialist secularism and its impact on German history between the Kaiserreich and the Third Reich.
Red Secularism
Author | : Todd H. Weir |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009463706 |
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Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their humanistic-monistic worldview through popular science and asks how this worldview shaped the biographies of ambitious self-educated workers and early feminists. Todd H. Weir shows how generations of secularist intellectuals staked out leading positions in the Social Democratic Party, but often lost them due to their penchant for dissent. Moving between local and national developments, this book examines the crucial role of red secularism in the political struggles over religion that rocked Germany and fed into the National Socialist dictatorship of 1933. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Secularism
Author | : Andrew Copson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : RELIGION |
ISBN | : 9780198809135 |
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What is secularism? -- Secularism in Western societies -- Secularism diversifies -- The case for Secularism -- The case against Secularism -- Conceptions of Secularism -- Hard questions and new conflicts -- Afterword: the future of Secularism
Secularism in Antebellum America
Author | : John Lardas Modern |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2011-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226533254 |
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Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.
Church State and the Crisis in American Secularism
Author | : Bruce Ledewitz |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780253001368 |
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Since 1947, the Supreme Court has promised government neutrality toward religion, but in a nation whose motto is "In God We Trust" and which pledges allegiance to "One Nation under God," the public square is anything but neutral -- a paradox not lost on a rapidly secularizing America and a point of contention among those who identify all expressions of religion by government as threats to a free society. Yeshiva student turned secularist, Bruce Ledewitz seeks common ground for believers and nonbelievers regarding the law of church and state. He argues that allowing government to promote higher law values through the use of religious imagery would resolve the current impasse in the interpretation of the Establishment Clause. It would offer secularism an escape from its current tendency toward relativism in its dismissal of all that religion represents and encourage a deepening of the expression of meaning in the public square without compromising secular conceptions of government.
How Not to Be Secular
Author | : James K. A. Smith |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780802867612 |
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How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor's insightful study of the secular, making that very significant but daunting work accessible to a wide array of readers. Even more, though, Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular is a practical philosophical guidebook, a kind of how-to manual on how to live in our secular age. It ultimately offers us an adventure in self-understanding and maps out a way to get our bearings in today's secular culture, no matter who "we" are -- whether believers or skeptics, devout or doubting, self-assured or puzzled and confused. This is a book for any thinking person to chew on.
American Secularism
Author | : Joseph O. Baker,Buster G. Smith |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781479867417 |
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A rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds of organized religion. Although America has long been viewed as a fervently Christian nation, survey data show that more and more Americans identify as "not religious." American Secularism documents how changes to American society have fueled these shifts in the (non)religious landscape and examines the diverse and dynamic world of secular Americans. Baker and Smith offer a framework for understanding nonreligious belief systems as worldviews in their own right, rather than merely as negations of religion. Drawing on multiple sources of empirical data, this volume explores how people make meaning outside of organized religion, outlines multiple expressions of secular identity, and connects these self-expressions to patterns of family formation, socialization, social class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Further, the authors demonstrate how shifts in secularisms reflect changes in the political meanings of religion in American culture. Ultimately, American Secularism offers a more comprehensive sociological understanding of worldviews beyond traditional religion. -- from back cover.
Defending the Faith
Author | : Hugh McLeod,Todd Weir |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197266916 |
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This book explores how conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the 20th century.